Shdwdrgn

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Hard to say for sure. He's on Facebook so I don't have a way to see what he posts, but my wife still has an account there and said he's in some of the same groups as her. She's pretty aware of what he's posting and they've actually had conversations in person about the whole immigration thing. The rest... yeah I just don't know.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 136 points 4 days ago (7 children)

This started on Wednesday, almost immediately after Trump's victory was announced. By Friday it was already being reported in grade schools because asshole parents enjoy raising asshole sons, and Trump tells people that it's ok to be the absolute worst human being they can be.

I have a friend who is a hard Republican. We generally don't talk politics, but after this started last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women and POC (and the whole "illegals took my job and healthcare") so I finally had to call him out. His response was basically that he wasn't aware of any increased discrimination happening against women, therefore he didn't believe it was happening. I've known the guy for 40 years but this may be the thing that breaks our friendship. He claims to be an advocate for people's rights yet he is painfully unaware of the world around him.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 18 points 5 days ago

Quite interesting advocating from 1st Amendment rights, while also also deleting content that he personally doesn't like.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

That's a shame since literally everyone should distrust Edge, given Microsoft's history with browsers (and everything else). I don't think anyone matches Microsoft's caviler attitude of "We know there are hundreds of gaping security holes that allow attackers to take full admin control of your computer, but we're just going to mark those bugs as will-not-fix and blame the users when something goes wrong."

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You do realize we're talking about the same society that requires a warning label to not eat the shampoo?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I figured there would be multiple answers for you. Just keep in mind that you DO want to get it fixed at some point to use the disk id instead of the local device name. That will allow you to change hardware or move the whole array to another computer.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Are you sure about that? Ever hear about this supposed predictable network names in recent linux versions? Yeah those can change too. I was trying to set up a new firewall with two internal NICs plus a 4-port card, and they kept moving around. I finally figured out that if I cold-booted the NICs would come up in one order, and if I warm-booted they would come up in a completely different order (like the ports on the card would reverse which order they were detected). This was completely the fault of systemd because when I installed an older linux and used udev to map the ports, it worked exactly as predicted. These days I trust nothing.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

OP -- if your array is in good condition (and it looks like it is) you have an option to replace drives one by one, but this will take some time (probably over a period of days). The idea is to remove a disk from the pool by its old name, then re-add the disk under the corrected name, wait for the pool to rebuild, then do the process again with the next drive. Double-check, but I think this is the proper procedure...

zpool offline poolname /dev/nvme1n1p1

zpool replace poolname /dev/nvme1n1p1 /dev/disk/by-id/drivename

Check zpool status to confirm when the drive is done rebuilding under the new name, then move on to the next drive. This is the process I use when replacing a failed drive in a pool, and since that one drive is technically in a failed state right now, this same process should work for you to transfer over to the safe names. Keep in mind that this will probably put a lot of strain on your drives since the contents have to be rebuilt (although there is a small possibility zfs may recognize the drive contents and just start working immediately?), so be prepared in case a drive does actually fail during the process.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

That is definitely true of zfs as well. In fact I have never seen a guide which suggests anything other than using the names found under /dev/disk/by-id/ or /dev/disk/by-id/uuid and that is to prevent this very problem. If the proper convention is used then you can plug the drives in through any available interface, in any order, and zfs will easily re-assemble the pool at boot.

So now this begs the question... is proxmox using some insane configuration to create drive clusters using the name they happen to boot up with???

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

One promising item I found are some json files from Reuters...

This one provides info on the candidates and the key for state ID's: https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/data/2024/us-elections/production/events/20241105/metadata.json

This one seems like it will provide the ballot counts(0) and possibly any declared winners(1): https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/data/2024/us-elections/production/events/20241105/summary-votes/president.json

Of course I won't know anything for sure until tomorrow evening when states start releasing their counts, but I went ahead and wrote up some code to use the files. It's something at least, and the Reuters data should be fairly timely. I hope to play around with the collected info in real time, then maybe next election I can re-use the same code.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I found the same on the AP data. I also found that reddit thread, but haven't been able to find a valid URL for this year's election. Maybe they don't make it available until voting starts?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm good idea, I'll take a look into that!

 

I'm wondering if anyone has found (free) sources of data to use for live elections results, specifically the Presidential race? I've been building a map of poll results but would also like to put something together to watch the race tomorrow night.

 

I have a self-hosted matrix-synapse server up and running on a Debian linux server, but before I open it up I want to at least get a captcha service in place to reduce spamming. The only module I've seen to handle this function appears to require setting up a Google recaptcha though, however I would prefer to keep all of this entirely self-contained for the privacy of my users. Can anyone recommend a module that allows for a local captcha option? For that matter, can anyone also recommend a captcha system that is pretty straightforward to set up (which is compatible with matrix-synapse) and uses basic preinstalled code bases like perl or python?

And while I'm here, I would also like to provide the option of registering with an email address, but I'm having trouble finding any clear how-to pages on this. Seems like that function might be built directly in to matrix-synapse but I'm just not finding anything helpful. Any suggestions?

I'm fairly new to matrix in general, but I have an initial setup running with the homeserver, Element web page, and an IRC bridge, so if I can just nail down the validation part of registrations I'll have what I think is a good starting point to launch from.

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